Bottle.



P. E. SGOTPORD.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. a. 1909.

947,421 Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

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FREDERICK E. SCOTFORD, OF BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

Application filed March 6, 1909. Serial No. 481,801.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, Fnnnnmon E. ScorroRI), a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and Stateof California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has as its object to provide a means that will enable amainifacturer of liquid goods, or a bottler, or dealer in such goods toretain ownership in the bottle, or to control its use after it passes tothe con sumer, that the empty bottle may not be used by others forplacing inferior qualities or imitations of the original liquid contentson the market without the reuse being indicated and the impositionreadily discovered by the purchaser.

To such end and object my said invention consists in a novelconstruction and combination of bottle having a recess in the neck ofthe bottle Within the mouth and below the seat for the cork or thestopper, and a circular token or disk of metal fitted to and adapted tobe retained in the said recess and to be accessible for removal onlyafter the cork or stopper has been removed; the token being of suchvalue that its return'with the bottle from which it was removed will bea sutlicient inducement for the original purchaser or consumer to securethe designated recompense by the return of the token and the bottle. Thesaid construction and combination are hereinafter set forth, and pointedout in the claim at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation and sectional-view of abottle embodying my said invention. Fig. 2 is a top-view of Fig. 1 withthe cover removed. Fig. 3 represents a slight modification in which theseat or recess in the neck is arranged to hold the token perpendicularlyin upright position.

Referring to the drawing a indicates the body, and Z) the neck of abottle of usual construction excepting in the features applied theretothat constitute the novel part of the invention.

In the neck 6, and preferably within the mouth I form a recess (Z ofcircular form in outline and sufficiently deep to take a circular token0. This recess (Z is of such dimensions that it will admit the token andwill retain the same in such position that the cork or stopper whenfixed in place will not only confine the token, but will conceal .itfrom view so that it will be invisible from the outside. The token beingthus concealed from view, and not accessible from the outside until thebottle be opened, its presence is unknown to the purchaser until afterhe has removed the cork or stopper to reach the contents. lVhen that isdone, however, the token is removed and returned, for rcde1nption by themanufacturer, or for such future use as the marks or matter borne by thetoken may designate as a means of securing the promised reward orrecompense for the return of the bottle to the manufacturer.

As conditions may arise in the application and use of my invention whereit may be desirab'le or expedient to expose the token to view from theoutside of the bottle, I have provided and make use of the modificationillustrated in Fig. 3 wherein grooves f are provided in the side-wallsof the neck diametrically opposite to each other so arranged that thetoken when inserted through the mouth of the bottle will lodge and beheld in a perpendicular position, as indicated at 5 Fig. 3. In thatposition the token will obviously be visible through the neck, if theglass of the bottle be sulliciently translucent, and the marks or mattercontained on the faces of the token may be read through the neck,thereby serving as a means of identifying the package and of determiningthe genuineness of its contents. If this feature of being readable orvisible from the outside of the bottle is not desired, the bottle may bemade of colored glass, or of material su'llieiently opaque to concealthe token; or the neck of the bottle may be surrounded by a label, or bya covering of opaque material for the purpose of rendering the tokeninvisible from the outside.

Usually the token will have such value that it will be an object for theconsumer to preserve it and return the bottle with the token for thedesignated reward.

I claim A glass bottle having a recess in its neck adapted to hold inplace in the neck a token of circular form, in combination With' aclosure of the mouth until after the same be token adapted to bear onits face marks removed.

designatin its value to the consumer of the contents 0? the bottle, saidrecess being ar- FREDK' SCOTFORD' 5 ranged With relation to the mouth ofthe Vitnesses:

bottle to adapt the token to be protected .15. STANFORD,

from access from the outside by the cork or A. G. LAMEY.

